What’s living in Chernobyl 40 years later?

It has been forty years since reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, causing the worst nuclear disaster in ...

Inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone - 40 years on

New Scientist journalist Matthew Sparkes recently chucked out his boots after travelling deep into Chernobyl's exclusion zone. Forty years on from the world's worst nuclear disaster, the site has ...

40 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, leaders draw parallels with then and now

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with his Moldovan counterpart in Kyiv, as the world marks the 40th ...
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What happened at Chernobyl?

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...